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Meta Files Settlement on 2018 Class-Action Suit Over Cambridge Analytica Data Scandal

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Meta proposed a settlement late Thursday to a 2018 lawsuit over elevations that now-defunct British political consulting outfit Cambridge Analytica improperly obtained access to user data from roughly 87 million people on the platform. "We acknowledge no wrongdoing, but here's $725 million."

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Jimmy Kimmel Returns to Host Oscars for First Time Since 2018

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Kimmel hosted back-to-back broadcasts in 2017 and 2018, before the Oscars opted to go hostless in 2019 and 2020. The 95th Academy Awards will see a familiar face next year: Jimmy Kimmel will return as emcee for the ceremony, which is scheduled for March 12, 2023 on ABC. Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes and Regina Hall.

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CMOs Are Living Many Lives in the C-Suite

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Stephanie McCarty has been a chief marketing officer for a little over five years, but the job she has today isn't the same one she took in 2018. "I I feel like I play marketer part of the day, chief financial officer part of the day and chief technology officer part of the day," said McCarty,

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B2B Influencer Marketing: It’s Not Rocket Science

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That's what nearly half of business buyers told PR Web in a 2018 survey. B2B advertising is boring. And it seems to have gotten worse since then. In 2023, The Power of Provocation discovered that a staggering 82% of business decision-makers considered B2B marketing monotonous and repetitive, while a mere 1% believed it demonstrated a.

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Fortune, a Rare Media Success, Faces a New Set of Challenges

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in 2018, it faced an uncertain future. When the business publisher Fortune was first spun out of the former Meredith Corp. The legacy title had launched a standalone website only four years prior, had no digital subscription program, and had only a fledgling online readership.

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Best Buy Refreshes Brand for the Age of AI, Introducing ‘Spokeshologram’

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The logo, updated in 2018, remains the same. Best Buy has refreshed its brand today, expanding the color palette and adding the tagline, "imagine that." It also added a holographic spokesperson, Gram.

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Ad Agencies Can Help Reduce Racial Wealth Gap in America—Here’s How

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In 2018, a Black-owned small business accomplished an incredible feat on Black Friday by selling $1 million of cosmetics in less than 90 minutes. The Box of Crayons product was also featured on Oprah's Favorite Things list.

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